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- Does the ghost writer possess the spirit of the prose or the ‘author’, what if the ghost writer is a machine, where would the spirit lie then?
- Where does the soul lie, in the ghost writer or the author? would a ghost writing machine be the soul spirit of the text or the human behind it?
talk about the book Ghost Writer by Tim Mackintosh-Smith
Definition
A ghostwriter is a writer who authors books, manuscripts, screenplays, scripts, articles, blog posts, stories, reports, whitepapers, or other texts that are officially credited to another person.
In French a ghost writer is call a "Nègre" then changed to "Nègre littéraire", as it was not politically correct. The actual name of the job gives a negative description, it refers to the writer as a slave. Whereas in English it is put more gently as a ghost.
"Digital Ghost"
digital ghost writing, blogs, websites, etc. nothing new, it's still a human writing for another human.
A mechanical Turk gives the illusion that a computer automatically writes the content. But it's still a human.
This is a project called a Descriptive camera, when a photo is taken, it prints out a description of the photograph. One might assume it is artificial intelligence, but no, it's human intelligence.
http://mattrichardson.com/Descriptive-Camera/
When a computer actually writes the content based on human input, does he become the ghost? his voice is probably mechanical, so even if the text is signed by a human, we might be able to tell it was written by a computer. The human still gave the input, which might have been given as key words.
Team writing. But one name.
My text for example will say I wrote it in the end, but in fact there might be some heavy input by others.
who is the author? what difference does it make to know who wrote what you read?
sex bots http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/features/scammers-and-spammers-inside-online-datings-sex-bot-con-job-20160201?page=5 the staff was getting "writers block when making them one at a time and were not being creative enough." the writers behind these sex bots at in effect ghost chatters.
Mein Kampf not ghost written - orwell review http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/does-mein-kampf-remain-a-dangerous-book Mussolini’s autobiography, to take the obvious comparison, though ghostwritten—by a former American Ambassador to Italy, apparently!—nonetheless reflects his sense of the best self to put forward; the youthful memories are more predictably of a concord between the young Italian and the national landscape he inhabits.
Guy Ribes - art forger, to be able to do it he must put himself in the skin of the painter.
F for fake Elmyr de Hory he claims to have no creativity and so preferred to copy paintings. He had the skill but not the imagination. in that case who does the painting belong to? does it matter, can we look at the content and enjoy it despite knowing who the real painter was.